Last read October 14, 2026. Our publisher, Rip Station, is deliberately left out of this one; it is compared with each of these three on its own pages.
These three move most of the money in tokenized cards. Collector Crypt reports the largest volume and has the most rigorous fairness proof. Courtyard has the most funding, the broadest catalogue and a Brink's vault. Phygitals has named US vaults, a commit-reveal scheme and products the other two do not offer. They answer the buyback question three different ways.
Buyback: three bases
Collector Crypt pays 85 percent of an 'insured value' it assigns and describes as not a market price, for three days. Courtyard pays 90 percent of a fair market value whose method it does not publish, with a reported 6 percent fee and no published window. Phygitals pays a default 85 percent of its own FMV estimate on time-limited offers. Of the three, only Phygitals' terms spell out that offers expire and rates vary by tier; Collector Crypt is the only one that states its value is not a market price; Courtyard is the only one whose fee and window we could not find on a primary page.
Custody
Courtyard: Brink's, free vaulting and insurance. Collector Crypt: PSA Vault or OmniVault, shown per card. Phygitals: PSA, Fanatics or Alt vaults in the US. All three name a custodian, which puts them ahead of most of the market on this column.
Fairness
Collector Crypt publishes an ECVRF proof per pack and a browser verifier. Phygitals documents a commit-reveal scheme. Courtyard records every pull on-chain, which proves the pull happened, not that it was random. If this column decides it for you, Collector Crypt.
Fees and shipping
Marketplace: Collector Crypt 2 percent, Phygitals 2 percent, Courtyard 0 percent. Shipping: Collector Crypt two to five weeks by zone; Phygitals one to four weeks with a per-item fee at checkout; Courtyard FedEx at cost, which reviewers find expensive per card.
Trust signals
Courtyard: 898 Trustpilot reviews at 3.7, five years operating, named founders and investors. Collector Crypt: no review profile, token-funded with a flagged 72 percent insider allocation, but the most public on-chain data. Phygitals: no review profile, thin press, Delaware entity per an affiliate review, listed on Fanatics Collect.
Side by side
| Collector Crypt | Courtyard | Phygitals | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operator | Collector Crypt, Inc. per docs footer; a Panama foundation holds cards and treasury per 4Pillars; token-funded ($CARDS), no VC 10 | Courtyard (Y Combinator); CEO Nicolas le Jeune; founded 2021; $37.5M raised incl. $30M Series A led by Forerunner, July 2025 14 | Phygitals Inc., Delaware (affiliate review); founders and funding not published 23 |
| Blockchain | Solana (plus EVM bridges); NFT is burned to redeem the card 7 | Polygon (migrated from Ethereum, 2023); NFT per vaulted card; platform pays gas; embedded wallets 13 | Solana, compressed NFTs; payouts in USDC 22 |
| What is in the packs | Pokemon first; One Piece, Dragon Ball, sports and watches through Jupiter's pack product 9 | Pokemon, baseball, basketball, football, hockey, soccer, Marvel, One Piece, VeeFriends, CGC comics, watches 12 | Pokemon, One Piece, sports; some packs include ungraded cards 9 |
| Formats | Random packs, marketplace, deposit-to-tokenize, eBay bidder 5 | Random packs ('vending machine'), marketplace, vault-in from eBay, PWCC and PSA 12 | Random packs, Pack Party group openings, marketplace, pawn loans against vaulted cards 20 |
| Pack prices | $25 to $2,500 per pull; a $1,000 'Grail' machine launched January 2026 (one affiliate review lists $5,000) 10 | Most series start at $25; comic packs $50 to $500; top of range not published 15 | 'Various fixed price points'; creator packs start at $25; no public price ladder 20 |
| Graders | PSA, CGC, Beckett 9 | PSA, CGC, BGS 15 | PSA, CGC, Beckett; some ungraded Near Mint or Lightly Played packs 20 |
| Custody | PSA Vault or OmniVault, shown on the card's details 9 | Brink's vault; vaulting and insurance free; carrier and limits not published 13 | PSA Vault, Fanatics Vault or Alt Vault, all in the US; Phygitals is the custodial agent; 'insured vault facilities' 20 |
| Instant buyback | 85% of 'insured value' as the base rate; higher rates on some machines (an analyst report cites 90% at $250 and 93% at $1,000 and up) 5 | 90% of fair market value on every pack; one October 2026 review reports a 6% transaction fee on top, for a net of about 84.6% 16 | Default 85% of FMV; some packs higher, shown before purchase 20 |
| Buyback window | 3 days from the pull 8 | not published 15 | Offer-based and time-limited; windows vary by card type (7 days on Jupiter-hosted packs) 20 |
| Net EV (EV x buyback, as % of price) | 93% to 95% on its own insured values ($25: 110% x 85% = 93%; $50: 110% x 85% = 93%; $100 to $500: 105% x 90% = 94% to 95%; $1,000 and up: 101% to 102% x 93% = 94%); a 57-card cross-check found its insured values at a median 93% of Rip Station's estimates on ordinary pulls and 118% on chase cards 52 | 90% on its own averages ($25 Starter: 100% x 90%), 86% on the $50 Pro (96% x 90%); about 85% and 81% after the 6% buyback fee reported by a reviewer 53 | 88% on the $25 Rookie (104% EV x 85%), 87% on the $50 Elite (102% x 85%), on its own FMV 54 |
| Who sets the value | 'Insured value', a reference value assigned by Collector Crypt; 'not an insurance policy and not a market price' 9 | Courtyard's fair market value; method not published 15 | Phygitals' fair market value estimate 9 |
| Marketplace fee | 2% of sale price 9 | 0% seller fee; no sales tax on vaulted-to-vaulted trades 15 | 2% on completed marketplace transactions 20 |
| Shipping | Worldwide, fees by zone; about 2 to 3 weeks US, about 5 weeks international; pay shipping by card, crypto or USDC and burn the NFT 9 | Carrier rate passed through 'at cost' (FedEx); reviewers cite high per-card costs; countries not published 15 | Per-item withdrawal fee shown before confirming; US 1 to 3 weeks depending on vault, international 1 to 4 weeks plus customs 9 |
| Payments | USDC, SOL, USDT; fiat via on-ramps; email login 11 | Credit card (Stripe), USDC on Polygon 18 | Card, USDC or USDT balance, hybrid, vouchers; Apple Pay and Google Pay per affiliate review 20 |
| Identity checks | Email verification; identity checks not documented 11 | Identity verification reported by reviewers; policy not published 15 | Veriff at Phygitals' discretion and before shipping 20 |
| Odds and EV published | Live rarity-tier odds per machine via public API; pack contents by tier 6 | Per-card odds shown on each pack; every pull recorded on-chain 14 | Odds, rarity tiers and drop-rate ranges referenced to a Provable Fairness page; not read directly 20 |
| Verifiable randomness | Verifiable: ECVRF (RFC 9381) decides tier and card, proof published on Solana, browser verifier 6 | No commit-reveal or VRF published; on-chain recording is not the same thing 15 | Cryptographic commit-reveal that users can verify 20 |
| App | not published 11 | iOS app 19 | not published 20 |
| Regions and age | 18+ per terms 11 | not published 12 | 18+ or age of majority; restricted-jurisdictions list; pawn feature unavailable where prohibited 20 |
| Trust signals | No Trustpilot profile found; operating since about April 2025; analyst flags 72% insider token allocation 10 | Trustpilot 3.7/5 from 898 reviews (53% five-star, 22% one-star); replies to about 6% of negative reviews 17 | No Trustpilot profile found; launched on Fanatics Collect April 2026 22 |
| Scale (self-reported) | $200.5M GMV in June 2026; $805M deployed by 28,750 wallets April 2025 to June 2026 (analyst figures, unaudited) 10 | $78M+ monthly trading volume reported for August 2025; 50,000+ daily trades on many days in 2026 18 | 250M+ total volume, 520,000 units sold, 100,000+ tokenized cards (company figures, August 2026) 22 |
How we compared
We read each platform's own pages first (FAQ, docs, terms, help centre) on the date above and quoted what they say. Where a site could not be read without a browser, or published nothing, we fell back to dated third-party reviews and marked them. Percentages are not interchangeable across rows: a buyback quoted against "insured value" set by the platform, against "fair market value" from an undisclosed method, and against a timestamped estimate from public comps are three different promises. Every cell carries a numbered source. If a platform changes a term, the number here is wrong until we re-read it; check the operator before relying on it.
See also: all six tokenized platforms compared.
Sources
All read on October 14, 2026. Items marked (affiliate) are third-party review sites that earn commissions from the platforms they review; we use them only where a primary page was unreadable, and say so.
- 10. 4Pillars research, June 2026
- 7. Collector Crypt docs, Withdrawing Cards
- 9. Jupiter docs, packs section, FAQ
- 5. Collector Crypt docs, Products
- 8. Jupiter docs, packs section, Instant Buyback
- 52. Collector Crypt machines API (price, odds, EV, buyback per machine)
- 11. The Spike, Collector Crypt review (affiliate)
- 6. Collector Crypt docs, Provable Fairness
- 14. Forerunner Ventures, Jul 2025
- 13. Polygon blog, Feb 2024
- 12. Courtyard.io, How it works
- 15. Card Shop Finder, Courtyard review, Sep 17 2026 (affiliate)
- 16. The Game Haus, Courtyard review, Oct 13 2026 (affiliate)
- 53. Courtyard pack pages, Distribution panel (Starter, Pro)
- 18. Privy blog, 2026
- 19. App Store, Courtyard
- 17. Trustpilot, Courtyard.io
- 23. The Spike, Phygitals review (affiliate)
- 22. Coinalert, Aug 11 2026
- 20. Phygitals docs (llms-full.txt)
- 54. Phygitals pack pages (Rookie, Elite)
Frequently asked questions
Which is bigger, Collector Crypt, Courtyard or Phygitals?
By reported volume, Collector Crypt ($200.5M GMV in June 2026 per 4Pillars), then Phygitals (250M+ lifetime per the company) and Courtyard ($78M+ in a month per 2025 coverage). None is independently audited and the metrics differ.
Which has the best buyback, Collector Crypt, Courtyard or Phygitals?
Courtyard's headline is highest at 90% of fair market value (a review reports a 6% fee); Collector Crypt and Phygitals default to 85%. Collector Crypt's basis is a company-assigned insured value; the other two use their own FMV estimates.
Which is provably fair?
Collector Crypt (ECVRF proofs on Solana with a verifier) and Phygitals (commit-reveal). Courtyard records pulls on-chain but publishes no randomness proof.